RE: Gardening attire
- Subject: RE: Gardening attire
- From: D*
- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 16:25:00 -0600
- Importance: Normal
> In a message dated 01/26/2002 11:23:37 PM Central Standard Time,
> ECPep@aol.com writes:
>
> << What do you
> wear for serious gardening? I have done some really good things
> in my old
> grey bathrobe. >>
Every gardener has been caught in the wrong clothes when unexpected guests
arrive. If your neighbors are not use to your 'get up', then you are not out
there tending the garden enough.
My gardening attire starts with my faithful baseball hat, hair in a pony
tail coming out of the back. Spring and fall are the sweat pants and
t-shirt. Summer is cut offs and t-shirts. If it gets to hot, I have been
known to go for a swim in my pond (10,000 gallons and five feet deep), and
then go back to weeding or what ever dripping wet, which really agitates the
neighbor. Of course I have my clog shoes, which do not see the inside of my
house, just the attached garage. I of course do a quick strip when I get to
the laundry- mud room after an all day gardening adventure. Unbelievable how
dirty I can get.
Believe it or not, I still have my old radio flyer red wagon from my
childhood with those wonderful large wheels (which has to be 40+ years old
now). Gets a new coat of paint every so many years. It is my most important
gardening apparel. One section is for tools and the other for things heading
to the compost area. Most convenient to just pull it around with you, and
works as hard as my wheel barrel, but never tips over :) Everyone laughs at
my little red wagon, but once they use it, the question arises about where
did you get that :)
Donna
Zone 5, but today Zone 9 with 65 degrees and sunny :)
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